Picosong Just Might Be The Easiest Audio-Sharing Utility Ever

In the realm of photo-sharing, we’ve got it made. There’s Imgur, Minus and others than allow stupidly easy drag-and-drop-with-no-account-required to upload and share. I had mentioned SoundCloud recently, and that’s a good audio-sharing site. Truly. My thought was, "Well, it can’t get any easier than this, right?" Wrong. There is...

5 Open Source Alternatives To Common Windows Programs

Here’s the scenario: you buy yourself a shiny new computer for work/school/personal use (nothing illicit, I hope), and after unboxing it and turning it on you realize it’s missing a plethora of stuff you actually kinda need. Maybe it shipped without Microsoft Office (I’ve seen a few systems that, for one reason or another, don’t actually...

Are You More Likely To Post Comments Using A Pseudonym?

Messaging systems are the core of what the internet is all about. Remember, email predates the World Wide Web itself, meaning the internet started originally as just a messaging system to get a message from Computer A to Computer B without having to physically move the message by means of storage media. Blog comments have had a tumultuous history. On the...

How To Find Out What Your Bandwidth Cap Is

When referring to the amount of data you can use per month before being charged for overages on a wireless carrier, that’s called a cap, or to be more specific, a bandwidth cap. The cap you’re subjected to varies depending on which wireless carrier you use. A simple web site that will tell you up-to-date information on what the cap is for your...

Changing Your Default Search Engines in Chrome

Let’s say you’re using Google Chrome…but for some reason, you hate Google search. I have no idea why you would – maybe you had a bad experience involving Google Images. Because hey, let’s face it, there are some things you should never search for. No, I’m not compiling a list. Of course, maybe it has nothing to do with...

Better Wireless Routers Are Coming – But What About Range?

Above is the newly-unveiled TRENDnet TEW-811DR and the TEW-800MB wireless router and bridge using the 802.11ac specification that allows for 1.3Gbps wireless connectivity. No, they’re not available for sale yet (that will happen later this year), but yes they will be backward compatible with Wireless N as long as you stay on the 5GHz band. The question...

5 Benefits Of Having Internet In Your Car

There have been several attempts to get broadband internet available to you while driving. Technically we already have this via smartphone, but manufacturers want a integrated-into-automobile solution because they feel we as consumers could use it. The latest iteration of this is 4G LTE in the car, and I can honestly say yes, that would actually work. Previous...

Reimage – Make Windows Sparkly Clean Without Reinstalling

Over the last couple of weeks, PCMech has had a new sponsor: Reimage. We’re happy to be working with Reimage – especially because this software is truly unique and actually does what it says it will do.Here’s what Reimage will do for you… The scan (which you can do for free) gives the user an evaluation of the current state of...

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